{"id":47,"date":"2018-09-05T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T05:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fontegaiatour.it\/en\/blog\/?p=47"},"modified":"2018-09-04T14:44:07","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T12:44:07","slug":"the-journey-as-philosophy-life-of-a-travel-planner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fontegaiatour.it\/en\/blog\/the-journey-as-philosophy-life-of-a-travel-planner\/","title":{"rendered":"The Journey as Philosophy: Life of a Travel Planner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you read our post concerning <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fontegaiatour.it\/en\/blog\/why-choose-a-travel-planner-for-your-next-trip\/\">why to choose a Travel Planner<\/a><\/strong> you know that a Travel Planner is a <strong>travel professional<\/strong> who <strong>studies<\/strong>, <strong>wonders<\/strong>, <strong>organizes<\/strong> and intuits. But what does the Travel Planner do during his working day? Let&#8217;s find it out together!<!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Our day as Travel Planner<\/h2>\n<p>The Travel Planner gets up in the morning, takes a shower and drags into the kitchen for the coffee, in my case for a green tea strictly with honey. At this point, he wakes up, scrolls the news on the laptop, because he should be up-to-date about what is going on in the world. Then he goes out humming a song and with the precise scheme of things to do on his mind. Once arrived at the office, in between a phone call and a Skype call, he\u00a0quickly reads emails, he checks the schedules and the calendar; he is then ready to start his working routine!<\/p>\n<p>Days all look alike, but none is like another! Some are similar to a call center: suppliers call to <strong>define the details of a tour<\/strong>, customers call to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fontegaiatour.it\/en\/travel-lusters.php\"><strong>make an appointment at the Travel Lab<\/strong><\/a> or to take advantage of our home consultation service! Of course, there are also boring days: those to devote to bureaucratic paperwork and cleaning! But the ones <strong>we prefer are the creative days<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p><img data-attachment-id=\"50\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/fontegaiatour.it\/en\/blog\/the-journey-as-philosophy-life-of-a-travel-planner\/whatsapp-image-2018-09-03-at-16-11-43\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fontegaiatour.it\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2018-09-03-at-16.11.43.jpeg?fit=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"768,1024\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Life of a Travel Planner\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Life of a Travel Planner&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fontegaiatour.it\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2018-09-03-at-16.11.43.jpeg?fit=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fontegaiatour.it\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2018-09-03-at-16.11.43.jpeg?fit=760%2C1013&amp;ssl=1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-50\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fontegaiatour.it\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2018-09-03-at-16.11.43-768x1024.jpeg?resize=760%2C1013&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Life of a Travel Planner\" width=\"760\" height=\"1013\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fontegaiatour.it\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2018-09-03-at-16.11.43.jpeg?w=768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fontegaiatour.it\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2018-09-03-at-16.11.43.jpeg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In creative days we use our creativity, we write new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fontegaiatour.it\/en\/blog\">posts for the travel blog<\/a> and plan our social media; we\u00a0also create photographic material, and we study climate, geography, we search for main events, new accommodations, and everything is related to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fontegaiatour.it\/en\/far-far-away.php\">your next dream destination<\/a>. <strong>Creative days that have as a result of your tailor-made travel experience<\/strong> or days when we welcome you to the Travel Lab in front of a steaming cup of coffee and speak about your next by <strong>exploring the planet with the help of videos, 3D maps, texts, magazines, music<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>Behind the Scenes of the Travel Planner\u2019s life<\/h2>\n<p>When you are traveling there begins our work, mostly behind the scenes!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Every trip is like a sort of film with its plot, its scenography, its history.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>A journey expresses the essence<\/strong>, the emotions, a dream that satisfies or calms the desire for escape. <strong>Traveling is not just moving to a place<\/strong>, but it means imagining it, discovering it little by little, waiting for it before leaving.<\/p>\n<p><img data-attachment-id=\"48\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/fontegaiatour.it\/en\/blog\/the-journey-as-philosophy-life-of-a-travel-planner\/whatsapp-image-2018-09-03-at-16-06-11\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fontegaiatour.it\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2018-09-03-at-16.06.11.jpeg?fit=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"768,1024\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Life of a Travel Planner\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Life of a Travel Planner&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fontegaiatour.it\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2018-09-03-at-16.06.11.jpeg?fit=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fontegaiatour.it\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2018-09-03-at-16.06.11.jpeg?fit=760%2C1013&amp;ssl=1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-48\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fontegaiatour.it\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2018-09-03-at-16.06.11-768x1024.jpeg?resize=760%2C1013&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Life of a Travel Planner\" width=\"760\" height=\"1013\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fontegaiatour.it\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2018-09-03-at-16.06.11.jpeg?w=768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fontegaiatour.it\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2018-09-03-at-16.06.11.jpeg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Travel Planner knows all this<\/strong> because he is in constant search for life, experiences, escape.<strong> A Travel Planner is a wanderluster <\/strong>that travels with his mind and as soon as he can he leaves the office he takes a ship, a plane, a guide or he walks to discover the world, to live and test what he tells you. <strong>A Travel Planner must be able to convey the same enthusiasm that he experienced for your trip<\/strong> <strong>in order to design a unique travel experience just for you<\/strong>, choosing each time a special and different formula.<\/p>\n<p>And when the Travel Planner comes back home in the evening, he keeps on traveling, he closes the door of his office and he opens the door of his imagination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you read our post concerning why to choose a Travel Planner you know that a Travel Planner is a travel professional who studies, wonders, organizes and intuits. 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